The PlayStation Wonderbook is a physical, sturdy 12-page book which interacts with your Move controller and camera, injecting compatible games with augmented reality, right in your own environment, placing you inside the game world on-screen.

The books may have come to a conclusion, but the Harry Potter legacy continues not only for new generations to discover in print and eBook, but also via gaming extensions like these. In this follow-up to Book Of Spells, your journey into creating, mixing and using various potions are linked to the Wonderbook and Move controller, the special glyph designs on the pages link, map and fuse the 3D imagery to your environment. After a long installation process, it's calibration time (setting the camera to have both you and the book visible on screen). You select a wand (bendy, rigid or supple) and it appears in your hand in the mirror image on the screen. Pick a Hogwarts house (Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin) and you're on your way.

The book is dangerous and cunning, written by Zygmunt Budge (who lives within its pages, narrating and taking you through all the procedures). You can tackle Concoctions, Cure for Boils, Shrinking Solution, Beautification Potion, Sleeping Potion, Laughing Potion, Doxycide, and Felix Felicis. You pick up items with your wand and pop them into the cauldron, chop, grind, shake, stir, pump billows for the exact heat etc., switching your wand to a knife, spoon, magnifying glass (to find hidden notes) and more. You're also taken into other areas (besides your transformed lounge or gaming room) to spots like a potions championship.

This is great fun with many surprises, creatures and objects emerging from the book into your world. Link to Pottermore.com and immerse yourself into more of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter universe.

If you don't have a Move controller and camera, you can buy a set including those, the game disc and the Wonderbook.

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- Paul Blom

A - Multiple Playing Prospects
B - Can be taken for another Run
C - Once Should Suffice